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The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, originated in the Wuhan city, China has spread over the seas so fast that the countries had no time to answer this call. The economies crashed, people went under lockdowns, harsh rules, deaths and all brought the complete earth and its operations to knees, with fear and uncertainty. In this aspect, when mankind was fighting for its survival, some of things, though very important like education became almost the last priority for quite some time to the people and gone at a low ebb. After monitoring the virus speed and situations, WHO and central govt. announced various advisories and a nationwide lockdown, as was being followed by many countries the world over. It was the first preventive step towards the COVID-19 to contain its spread from one person to another by avoiding contact and through the confinement at home. The education sector including Schools, Colleges, and the Universities thus, got closed under the mandate of lockdown. The lockdown effected the schedules of every students one way or the other badly. As per data on 27 April 2020, approximately 1.725 billion learners have been affected due to school closures in response to the pandemic. According to UNICEF monitoring, 186 countries have implemented nationwide closures and 8 have implemented local closures, impacting about 98.5 percent of the world's student population. Keeping in mind the state of economy and other key factors, the lockdown was later selectively lifted or eased out and measures were developed and employed to appropriately deal with varied human needs including education. In this paper, focus is on the social challenges faced by the mankind on account of COVID 19 and specially its effect on the education system in India.